I grew up not far from Woodlawn High, attended a neighboring school. After hearing about the trees that were planted in Hae Min's memory, particularly the second tree which was planted behind the school where "Lee liked to flop after an exhausting practice session with the lacrosse or field hockey teams" I recalled doing exactly that every summer after baseball practice (summer league was at woodlawn high) and I was curious to know if the tree giving me shade all those years was the one planted in her memory. So I decided to stop by after work and take some photos with my phone while I was around.
Side note I also went to Sunday School with Adnan's brother - or at least saw him around the campus - did not know any of them personally however. My only memory from the trial days is my parents telling me "See what happens when you have a girlfriend!" (grew up in a similarly conservative household, personally very liberal)
I would imagine you would be unplugging your car in the morning before your commute to work, just as i unplug my phone from its charger when i wake up.
Also living on the east coast (near DC suburbs) and having made a similar road trip to NYC many times, i cant remember the last time i did not spend 1 hour + at a rest stop to eat. refuel, relax, pee, etc.
What car do you drive that does 500+ miles per fill up? My civic will do maybe 450 miles of only highway driving on a 13 gallon tank, and my E350 will do barely 400 on an 18 gallon fill up.
It's roughly 250 miles each way. Unless you are just trying to do laps, you take a break when you get to the destination and fuel up before leaving. I do the trip from union square to falls church all the time in a 335 IX and a panamera without having to refuel on the way.
> What car do you drive that does 500+ miles per fill up? My civic will do maybe 450 miles of only highway driving on a 13 gallon tank, and my E350 will do barely 400 on an 18 gallon fill up.
Ah, no wonder you think 'filling up a petrol car to do 500+ miles takes <5 minutes.' You've only ever owned go karts with lawn mower engines that have weaker emission standards compared to their US counterparts.
when i see comments like this, im curious as to what inspired op to write something more in depth and interesting than the original content (higher word count to boot!) are you an industry insider? just passionate about the subject?
On a larger level, I think that many issues are multi-facetted and that requires a certain amount of text to explore. Many times we experience the kind of reasoning like, "The car companies just need to make the cars use less gas. . ." The "just" in that statement belies the problem and can lead people to trains of thought like, "they must not care about the environment and might be getting bribes from BigOil to keep fuel economy down". In reality, there are complex engineering issues at play, issues of cost of lighter/more expensive materials (like aluminum), more advanced/expensive parts (like CVTs and DSGs), more advanced techniques (like the grill shutters that enhance highway fuel economy on a few new vehicles), etc. It's hard work to provide a significantly enhanced product while maintaining it as affordable and reliable. Google "just" needs to buy a wireless carrier and we'd have a premier Android product with the wireless service that we dream of. Now, I'm not accusing the article of being simplistic like that, but I think there are more issues at play than what the article raised. In order to create good conclusions, many different data points need to be considered and weighed. Different people may consider them differently, but they should be a part of the consideration.
Ultimately, things like wireless (and other utilities) present an interesting economic problem: how do we (as citizens/consumers) get the best quality product at the lowest price when it may not be practical to have more than a few competitors?
I think Google does many excellent things and hope to see them do more excellent things in the future, but I thought it was important to point out that buying T-Mobile might not give us the outcome that we want (as fans of Google).
At a very basic level, convince the credit card company (or hospital, bank, etc), that they will never collect even a penny from you and incur the hit to your credit rating that such activity entails. To actually purchase the debt, you'll likely need to be licensed according to your local jurisdiction.
More interestingly, how would the 1099-C work in such a case. Wouldn't it be like matter and anti-matter colliding wiping each other out since you would simultaneously incur a tax-deductable loss and a taxable gain of equal value?
"Actually, bringing Arrington back into the fold is a smart move for more reasons than one: One source who has expressed interest in buying the properties said raising the money wasn’t the hard part. The hard part is finding a strong editorial figurehead to be at the helm."
To me, this speaks volumes on how big the loss of joshua topolsky & co. was to engadget.
His take could have been close to 5Mil+[1] had he joined the team.
While i do believe there are people out there who are not motivated by money, to me claiming "..money doesn’t make much of a difference... most of it’s gone. I’m kind of glad it is." smells of cognitive dissonance.
Re: "His take could have been close to 5Mil+[1] had he joined the team."
So let's say he was hired. Maybe his engineering decisions send Instagram on another trajectory - one that doesn't involve a billion dollar exit. Maybe his impact on candidate interviews causes Instagram to end up with an entirely different-looking engineering team, one that isn't as successful. Maybe he develops considerable influence within the organization, and convinces the founders to take an earlier exit.
This isn't a knock against Robert. This is just suggesting that things could have played out entirely differently were he onboard - even if he was by every measure a successful employee.
Maybe an asteroid strikes their headquarters. Maybe this is a pretty good argument^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H justification for why every decision someone makes is the right^H^H^H^H^H wrong one.
I mean, sure, those things could have happened, but I was focusing on outcomes that might likely have been impacted by Robert as the 2nd engineering hire - not random acts of god.
I know Robert and he genuinely does embody the "money doesn't matter" philosophy. Besides, he sold to Zynga and he's an early employee at Quora, I somehow doubt he's hurting right now.
It is when trying to explain one's motivations in a structured and informative way. Not so much when trying to emotionally deal with a missed opportunity. But this is presumably meant to be a reasoned response.
I believe Gruber intended irony there, i.e. Apple is leading the industry in every measurable way on this issue, but are perhaps not as far ahead here as they are in other respects.
Isn't this sad? This should be no matter at all, bad working conditions is something of the past century. Enabling the next revolution should be the biggest challenge for them.
Its easy to forget that unacceptable working conditions are not exclusive of china or even the tech manufacturing industry, see sago mine disaster, west virginia, 2006. Conditions for the working poor worldwide have a ways to go, and it seems to me Apple is taking a step in the right direction with independent investigation.
Kind of ironic that the appalling working conditions of the 1900s are largely what gave rise to communism. Although based on what I know, the average 1900s factory worker would have sold their mother for Foxconn's working conditions.
I grew up not far from Woodlawn High, attended a neighboring school. After hearing about the trees that were planted in Hae Min's memory, particularly the second tree which was planted behind the school where "Lee liked to flop after an exhausting practice session with the lacrosse or field hockey teams" I recalled doing exactly that every summer after baseball practice (summer league was at woodlawn high) and I was curious to know if the tree giving me shade all those years was the one planted in her memory. So I decided to stop by after work and take some photos with my phone while I was around.
Side note I also went to Sunday School with Adnan's brother - or at least saw him around the campus - did not know any of them personally however. My only memory from the trial days is my parents telling me "See what happens when you have a girlfriend!" (grew up in a similarly conservative household, personally very liberal)